A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI OGEE DISHES

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI OGEE DISHES
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each painted and enamelled to the centre of the interior with a full-faced flower-head with overlapping petals, encircled by four peach and four stylised lotus-blossom scrolls, the rim with the eight Daoist emblems, hongbao, tied to flower-sprays with bowed ribbons, the exterior with eight exotic loose flower and fruit-sprays above a band of ruyi-heads, all within double line borders--8in. (20cm.) diam., box (2)

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For similar published examples see the Tokyo National Museum, Catalogue, no. 634; Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection. Catalogue, no. 160; and a pair included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Special Exhibition, Ch'ing Polychrome Porecelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 83

A pair of Qianlong ogee dishes of this pattern were sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 732; single dishes were also sold, 8 October 1990, lot 507; 18 March 1991, lot 598; and 1 October 1991, lot 882

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